The Grace Fort Gouldsby Scholarship foundation
Excellence Redefined
The Grace Fort Gouldsby
Scholarship Foundation
Excellence Redifined
"Helping the Future Grow One Mind at a Time"
The Grace Fort Gouldsby Scholarship Foundation awards scholarships for the purpose of recognizing high school seniors in the state of Texas who have demonstrated outstanding and committed service in their community as well as academic excellence. This award is intended to provide financial assistance to such students in attaining their educational and career goals.
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2022-2023 RECIPIENT
Austin Miller
Austin is a 2022 graduate of Texas High School in Texarkana, Texas. Throughout high school, he was a four-year member and two-year captain of the varsity soccer team and a one-year member of the varsity football team, being selected for All-District awards in both sports and breaking three different school records in soccer. He was a member of the Spanish National Honor Society, National Honor Society, Leadership, and Student Council. Austin also attended St. James church, refereed youth soccer, and received the Eagle Scout award. He now attends Sewanee: The University of the South in Tennessee, where he studies politics and is a men’s soccer team member.
2021-2022 Recipients
Zoe Cordova
Zoe graduated from Lake Ridge High School in Mansfield, Texas and attends Xavier University of Louisiana. She is working towards a Bachelor degree in Biology on the pre-medical track.
Her future goal is to attain a Doctoral Degree in Medicine and become an Anesthesiologist or Psychiatrist.
Her volunteer efforts are spent helping her community in the New Orleans area and serving those in need through many programs run by her University.
Kemeria Baraso
Kemeria found time to earn her high school diploma and associate degree in science by the time she graduated from Lakeview Centennial High School in Garland, Texas. Kemeria is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing at the University of Miami.
Her ambition and passion to help others are the driving force behind her aspirations to become a Nurse Practitioner.
Kennedi Mayo
Kennedi graduated from Rosie Sorrells School of Education and Social Services at Townview in Dallas, Texas and is a freshman at Florida A&M University majoring in Animal Science. Her long-term plan is to become a veterinarian.
She is a part of the Big Sister Little Sister mentoring program at Florida A&M and Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences.
During her free time, Kennedi loves spending time with friends and family.
About GRACE
She graduated in 1946 with a Bachelors degree. She did graduate work at Prairie View A&M University and East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas. Mrs. Gouldsby started her teaching career at Center Point Boarding High School, Pittsburgh, Texas, where she did her student teaching in 1946.
She accepted her first teaching assignment at Wynn High School in Garland City, Arkansas where she taught homemaking and coached girls’ athletics. During the various stages of her teaching career, in the colored school system and after integration, she taught Elementary, Junior High and High School. Areas of concentration included the head start program, remedial reading, home economics and Braille instruction. She was an active community leader and worked with children in the 4-H Club, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts (Den Mother) and was a dietician mother and extension agent.
Her family established the Grace Fort Gouldsby Scholarship Foundation, a non-profit corporation, on the occasion of her retirement from the teaching profession in June of 1989. It was a means of expressing their love and appreciation for Mrs. Gouldsby’s unsparing devotion to excellence in education.
The annual scholarship is awarded to a meritorious high school graduate to assist in furthering his/her education. The recipients of the award exhibit excellence in leadership and scholarship. The initial Scholarship Committee was selected by Mrs. Gouldsby, which was comprised of members of the community. Today, the Scholarship Committee is comprised of citizens from the community and board members determines awards. Over the years, many people have made generous contributions to the Foundation particularly during the period after Mrs. Gouldsby’s untimely death in 1991. Contributions are tax deductible and go directly into the Scholarship Foundation. The experience, energy and dedication that Grace Fort Gouldsby brought to the field of education greatly enriched our children, our community, and our overall quality of life, and the Scholarship Foundation is one way of continuing her life-long commitment to quality education and quality life.
The Foundation extends its sincere appreciation to the many patrons, fiends, and family members who have supported their efforts to assist these deserving young persons. The goal is to raise enough funds to ensure that the Grace Fort Gouldsby Scholarship Foundation will continue in perpetuity, and with your help we can make this goal a reality.
Devotion to Excellence in Education
Grace Fort Gouldsby, shown below with her 1954 3rd grade class in Hooks, Bowie County, TX, is the name sake of the Foundation. She began her teaching career at the historic Center Point School in Pittsburgh, TX, which was a boarding school known for its premier education that educated students from cities and towns across the country.
